By IANS,
Lucknow: At least 16 people were killed and over a dozen injured when a bus in which they were travelling rammed into a truck and caught fire in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district, police said Saturday.
The bus, carrying 60 pilgrims, was returning from the Ghazi Miyan ki Dargah in Bahraich after a religious congregation when it collided with the truck at Tilwarai on the town’s outskirts late Friday. The pilgrims were on their way to Ajmer.
Bahraich is about 130 km from here.
Sixteen people were confirmed dead, and it is being ascertained if more charred bodies were in the bus that was gutted, Bahraich Superintendent of Police G.P. Kanaujia told IANS.
Many passengers managed to save their lives by jumping out of the bus as fire broke out after the collision.
Of the injured, two have been referred to Lucknow as their condition deteriorated, police said.